Yozora "It's not like I want friends!" Mikazuki
25 August 2013 @ 02:27 am
For the month of August, the Neighbors Club (a.k.a. the Friendless Losers Club) will be playing a game that's a little something like Twenty Questions! There's a storm, so it's not like they have anything else better to do, right?

Wait, what is the Neighbors Club?
The Neighbors Club is a club Yozora founded in her canon. It's a club that aims to help those without friends become "normals" or riajuu and make friends. Their activities often involve playing games, acting exercises, playing games, going places, playing games... Actually, they do nothing but play games. But that should be fine, right!? More info here. If your character wants to join, they can sign up there and talk about/handwave them joining, too.

So what's this game we're playing this month?
This site has short videos that will help you visualize the setup. No, no one is getting in a ridiculous chair and wearing an electronic sign on their head. The point of the game is to guess the word. Simple, right? Person A (the person with the sign on their head) has to ask Person B about it. However! Person B can only answer with a "Yes" or "No".

The Neighbors Club version has a twist: instead of nouns in general, people have to guess the name of a person.

What are the mechanics? What will the log look like?
I have an example up here. Threading with myself? Still the saddest thing ever. Hopefully, that will give you guys an idea of what the log will look like! Here are the instructions:
The name of a person is in the subject title, but will be ICly displayed behind the person who has to do the guessing (Person A). Another person (Person B) has to help Person A guess the name of the person correctly by answering their Yes or No questions. ICly, there's a time limit for each round, but OOCly we'll place this at 10 comments per character, making each round 20 comments total.
I will be getting 17 players for this activity. These players plus Yozora will be randomly sorted into teams of two. Work together to win something big!

What does my character win?
We all just won $2000 from the landlord. What the hell, you guys. Shame on you. Seriously though, the pair with the most points gets enough lunch money from Yozora. But no one knows that ICly... just that Yozora has a big prize in store.

Sounds like fun! How will this work?
1. Comment here to sign up. Sign-ups will close when we reach 15 people (excluding Yozora) OR by Sunday evening GMT +8 - whichever comes first. One character per mun, please! SIGN-UPS ARE CLOSED.
2. List down names your character would know AND your OOC team up preferences here. Comments are screened.
3. Wait for the log and the final list of players and teams to go up. This will happen within the 24 hours after slots are filled.
How many teams and rounds will there be?
There will be 9 teams. Each team will get 3 rounds each. That's a total of 27 rounds.

So we'll only get to tag our teammate for this activity?
Threadjacking is fine! Make sure to ask the other person if it's okay. If it's a reaction to something someone said and won't affect the players of the round, just go for it.

Why aren't there more slots!?
Because Yozora gets nauseous around crowds and setting these things up is hard.

My character is not a part of the Neighbor's Club, but I want to join!
No problem! Yozora or another member of the club could have roped them in somehow shortly before the game begins. This will be handwaved.

Any comments, suggestions, concerns and plotting threads are welcome in this post!
 
 
Mitsuba Okita
25 August 2013 @ 03:36 pm
 Just letting you guys know that my tags are going to be a bit slow for the next two weeks or so.

Recently got a new job and with a new school year starting, it's going to be a lot of fun! \o

I'll try my best to finish as many tags as I can get!
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Your New Landlord
25 August 2013 @ 05:47 pm
ACTIVITY CHECK ➜ AUGUST

Activity Check will run through the last week of August. Activity can be from July 25th through August 31st. Please use activity posted before this week unless you are stretched and must use a proof from reserve week.

Please provide two (2) proofs of activity in one the following forms:

A post either on the network or the log community. A post counts if you have put it up and replied to comments on it as of when you post it. Please do not use a post with no replies from you as proof.

Network post comments equaling to 10. It can be a thread with 10 comments from you, three threads with 3+3+4 comments from you. Enough to equal 10.

Log post comments equaling to 5. It can be a thread with 5 comments from you, two threads with 3+2 comments from you, etc. Enough to equal 5.

Mailbox post comments equaling to 15. It can be a thread with 15 comments from you, two threads with 9+6 comments from you, etc. Enough to equal 15.


If your character was accepted during the month of August:

Any of the above with only one proof. You must make half of normal AC to stay in the game. This can include a post, 10 post comments, 5 log comments, OR 15 mailbox comments, not a combination of the two.


You are exempt from the activity check if you:

Posted any hiatus during July 25th through August 31st that lasted a week or more. There isn't a need to comment here if so, but if you'd like to pop in and say something OR if you have enough to post to AC anyway, feel free.

Post with a strike. Simply reply with the form but instead of dates and links, put STRIKE. This is for those that wish to continue playing but don't have enough activity to make it this month. If you ask for a strike the next month, you will be removed from the game. If you make AC the next month, then your strike will be negated.


ATTENTION


If your name is on the following list please read the following:

➜ If your name is on the list then you have one or several taken list errors. In order to fix up the taken list, these errors need to be corrected. Your AC will not count until you post your list corrections. These could be left out names, contact info, misspellings, or a missing house number. If your number or name are missing OR if you've misspelled something, feel free to just say so in your comment. If your contact info is missing, however, please put your desired contact info coding in a text area. Please do this here along with your AC, not on the taken page. Those on hiatus will be exempt and be messaged at the end of the month.


Please do not post AC for others without their express permission. If someone would like to idle out by not responding to the AC, then that is their own business, and not the place of others to show activity for them.

Do not post activity until it is complete. You have a week to complete activity, so don't dilly dally! Please fill out the following form for each character you have. Feel free to put multiple characters in one comment. You have until the 31st to post, then you will be removed from the game. There will be no exceptions.

AC FORM


OTHER NEWS

➜ You may have noticed that the comms all have new layouts! This one is a little more attractive than the old one with the same functional ability. I've widened it per some people's request, but if you have any other complaints about the layout, let me know and I'll try to fix them!

➜ I'm going to be redoing the housing number list soon with a new coding more like our taken list coding so that it isn't as sloppy and off kilter, so it should be more readable. This will hopefully be done before apps open!

➜ For those of you who are still guessing and possibly stuck on the event riddles, I'll help you out! The location for the blue key is the Alumni Gate and the yellow key is in the Pleasure Gate. Along with these hints, I'll allow three questions to be asked about the riddles below in this thread! One question per key, and you can't outright ask for the answer. Asking for a hint or what Gate the other keys are in, this is fine.